the high cost in the space projects you reefer to is probably because of extreme safety precautions (Where a lot of them could have been skipped without actually reducing safety.)
The problem is knowing which ones you can safely skip.
And I can download your 5 lb. textbook onto my tablet in of a couple of minutes for less than $4 as well, Weighs less this way too;)
Yeah, I'm sure he never thought of that, after all it's unlikely that someone on a fucking technology site would even know what a Tablet Computing Device was.
Explain to me why a postal worker with less than three years of service can accrue 208 hours between sick leave and annual leave?
At 8 hours a day that's 26 days. I know the US is weird about annual leave, but that would be below the bare minimum in Europe. Even in the UK we have 28 days minimum holiday (20 days plus public holidays).
It seems to be that the Union is doing precisely what it should be doing, securing decent benefits for its members.
What's scary about Apple's business model is that it's not just a few crazy obsessed people, it's millions of the fuckers.
I swear to god they must implant some sort of addictive mind-altering parasite in their products like that one you get in cat shit that turns you into a pussy-loving zombie.
Oh really? Carring your external hard drive across a continent and an ocean in your bag and having it be subjected to searches for illegal content when entering certain countries is more convenient than just accessing your files over the web when you get there?
No one's saying there aren't uses for cloud storage, but that is a bit of an edge case. Most people aren't globetrotting superstars who need access to their data from inside North Korea.
You know, lightening up a little will help with both the migraines and the depression. Both are symptoms and not diseases in their own right.
You forgot the IANAD (I Am Not A Doctor) line, although to be honest your incredible stupidity makes that self evident, as it's quite hard to get through medical school if you're a moronic twat.
All Frenchmen smell of garlic, wear berets and striped jumpers and bicycle everywhere with a string of onions round their neck and a Gauloise hanging out of their mouths. This must be true, because I saw it in a cartoon once.
I quit a job three days before Christmas one year, because the manager was an asshole. It wasn't worth my health or happiness to work there, so I quit.
I did similar things when I was young and had no mortgage or kids to worry about.
Come back to us when you're 40 or 50 and see if you're still sticking it to the man.
But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
I'm an atheist, but I wouldn't say that was fair. What you do need is good people who believe in something, whether it's God, Communism or their Homeland.
As people tend to believe in something rather than nothing, because a life entirely without purpose or meaning just leads to amorality anyway, you'll always have good people doing evil things.
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This would actually make it possible to put a BA-330 on Phobos.
Geez, while you're there, why not just start teleportation experiments to Deimos?
Isn't it a slight flaw that you would require volunteers who were insane?
When they got to Mars they'd probably decide to go naked sunbathing or something.
the high cost in the space projects you reefer to is probably because of extreme safety precautions (Where a lot of them could have been skipped without actually reducing safety.)
The problem is knowing which ones you can safely skip.
And I can download your 5 lb. textbook onto my tablet in of a couple of minutes for less than $4 as well, Weighs less this way too ;)
Yeah, I'm sure he never thought of that, after all it's unlikely that someone on a fucking technology site would even know what a Tablet Computing Device was.
Explain to me why a postal worker with less than three years of service can accrue 208 hours between sick leave and annual leave?
At 8 hours a day that's 26 days. I know the US is weird about annual leave, but that would be below the bare minimum in Europe. Even in the UK we have 28 days minimum holiday (20 days plus public holidays).
It seems to be that the Union is doing precisely what it should be doing, securing decent benefits for its members.
It's generally considered that an essential quality of a joke is that it's funny. OP wasn't.
I swear to god they must implant some sort of addictive mind-altering parasite in their products like that one you get in cat shit that turns you into a pussy-loving zombie.
+1 convenience vs. TheCloud
Oh really? Carring your external hard drive across a continent and an ocean in your bag and having it be subjected to searches for illegal content when entering certain countries is more convenient than just accessing your files over the web when you get there?
No one's saying there aren't uses for cloud storage, but that is a bit of an edge case. Most people aren't globetrotting superstars who need access to their data from inside North Korea.
Fine for regular folk. Us enthusiasts have vastly higher expectations, and we're not a shrinking market.
Well aren't we a bunch of precious fucking snowflakes?
Clinical depression is not just a matter of feeling a bit down in the dumps because the sky is grey, however much people like to misuse it.
You know, lightening up a little will help with both the migraines and the depression. Both are symptoms and not diseases in their own right.
You forgot the IANAD (I Am Not A Doctor) line, although to be honest your incredible stupidity makes that self evident, as it's quite hard to get through medical school if you're a moronic twat.
We live in a world where we have beaten most diseases and already live longer than we should
I can only assume you're a healthy, young ans an optimist.
Wait til you get to 50 and see if you think the same way
For those (like me) who didn't know this, the fuckbucket in question was Mark Zuckerberg.
It's a bid for immortality. Young rich guys sponsoring biotech research? They want to live forever.
You need to check this http://www.2045.com/
Why not be honest and call it the "it will always be 30 years in the future" project?
You make it sound as if having money were directly correlated to not being trustworthy.
The love of money is the root of all evil.
It's not having money that makes you untrustworthy, it's wanting to have it above all else.
I'm kind of surprised that Elon Musk isn't involved with this some how.
And Ray Kurzweil, with his fucking vitamin pills.
"I will live to see the Singularity, I will".
I'm down with an hour for breaks and an hour for lunch, but i don't understand the "talk" for 3 hours. What exactly do they "talk" about for 3 hours?
It's an American euphemism for "make mad monkey love".
All Frenchmen smell of garlic, wear berets and striped jumpers and bicycle everywhere with a string of onions round their neck and a Gauloise hanging out of their mouths. This must be true, because I saw it in a cartoon once.
Are you aware of time zones and that Europe is 7-9 hours ahead of the USA
It would be hilarious if he didn't realise that his 2pm call was 10pm at night in France and everyone had gone home for the night.
The fact that he could only contact them in the morning (US time, i.e. afternoon in Europe) supports your point.
I believe you're only allowed to work 35 hours/week in france
source: http://www.businessweekly.co.uk/export-to/europe/14173-employment-law-guide-france
It's more that you can't be forced to work more than 35 hours, and certainly not without being paid overtime. Seems sensible to me.
If we accrue more than 50 days leave at the end of a quarterly cycle
You get 200 days holiday a year? I want your job.
I quit a job three days before Christmas one year, because the manager was an asshole. It wasn't worth my health or happiness to work there, so I quit.
I did similar things when I was young and had no mortgage or kids to worry about.
Come back to us when you're 40 or 50 and see if you're still sticking it to the man.
I'm a blend of the U.S. versions of a Republican and a Libertarian
That is, a blend of right wing and extreme right wing, but you do do drugs.
Clearly, the terrorist threat is entirely imaginary.
But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
I'm an atheist, but I wouldn't say that was fair. What you do need is good people who believe in something, whether it's God, Communism or their Homeland.
As people tend to believe in something rather than nothing, because a life entirely without purpose or meaning just leads to amorality anyway, you'll always have good people doing evil things.